LED teeth trend takes Japan by storm

Demand has gone through the roof for the colour-changing teeth as Japanese schoolgirls pounce on the product

BY: Rebecca D'Souza | Wed Jan 26, 2011
TAGS: graffiti, hand-held computer, Japanese fashion, Laforet Harajuku, LED teeth, lights, mouth-guard, party in your mouth, popular trends, smile, Throwies, wireless

LED teeth trend have taken Japan by storm

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LED teeth are the latest in bizarre trends to hit Japan.

The new fashion accessories were originally created as an experiment by two Japanese designers and are now being used in a commercial advertising of Japanese clothing store, Laforet Harajuku.

The LED insert, which can be affixed to your teeth like a mouth-guard, lights up when you smile.

Japanese schoolgirls have gone crazy over the LED mouth-guard, which is being advertised as a ‘party in your mouth.’

There is a wireless hand-held computer that is available which can control the LED teeth. This means you can make them blink or change colour - from a lurid green to a blinding red.

Motoi Ishibashi, one of the designers involved in the project, explained in a blog post that the original idea for the LED smiles came after he saw a video last year of LED Throwies, which are little lights that can be affixed to a magnet and thrown on metal surfaces. They are like lighted graffiti.

Ishibashi and Daito Manabe, the other designer and technologist on the project, are offering workshops in Japan to show people how to build their own LED smiles.
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